Briska

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briska, from 416 m² to 3,994,213 m² (399.42 ha, 986.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Briska in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Apr 2026Conditional

  erection of dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, site access onto public road, and to include all other ancillary site services and development works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2686

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  restoration and stabilisation of approximately 220m of riverbank along the Owenmore River where erosion has occured. These works will include the placement of rock armour stone to the lower sections of riverbank, and soft engineering measures to the upper sections of riverbank. The soft engineering measures will include the installation of coir/jute matting and re-vegetation works. A NIS has been prepared in respect of this planning application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2330

• 2 Nov 2022N/a

  SECTION 5 DECLARATION: INSTALLATION OF ROCK ARMOUR MATERIALS TO THE RIVERBANKS OF THE OWENMORE RIVER AT 2 LOCATIONS EACH MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 200M IN LENGTH TO PREVENT FURTHER EROSION OF THE EXISTING BANKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22930

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21512

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW TWO STOREY DORMER STYLE BEDROOM BLOCK (66.6SQM) EXTENSION COMPLETE WITH LINK BRIDGE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (EAST ELEVATION). DEMOLITION OF DOUBLE GABLE FRONT ENTRANCE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REPLACE WITH NEW SINGLE GABLE ROOF AND ENTRANCE, COMPLETE WITH REVISED ROOM LAYOUTS BENEATH (NORTH ELEVATION) AND 2 NO. ROOF MOUNTED VELUX WINDOWS TO EXISTING SOUTH ELEVATION OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18214

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SAC 000534
• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowmore Lake Complex SAC 000476
• Special Protection Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA 004098
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex 000534
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowmore Lake Complex 000476

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briska.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Briska.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Briska, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Briska.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Briska with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Briska · Broisce

Area

14,703,709 m² (1,470.37 ha, 3,633.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Glenco, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bangor, Bellanumera, Largan More, Lenanadurtaun, Muingnahalloona, Sheean, Srahanarry, Srahgraddy, Tarsaghaun More

Placenames

Briska on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.